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In November, a terrified 13-year-old girl pounded on an apartment door in Brooklyn. When a surprised woman answered, the girl pleaded for a phone. She called her mother, and then dialed 911. The girl, whom I’ll call Baby Face because of her looks, frantically told police that a violent pimp was selling her for sex. … More How Pimps Use the Web to Sell Girls
There are more websites for sure but these but this is a good primer to start on researching the landscape of abolition activities from these organizations and entities: MOST INFLUENTIAL http://ijm.org/ http://www.polarisproject.org/ http://www.freetheslaves.net/ http://www.slaverymap.org/ http://www.chainstorereaction.com/ http://www.notforsalecampaign.org/ http://caase.org/ http://www.endslaveryandtrafficking.org/ http://www.sharedhope.org/ DEDICATED SHELTERS FOR SURVIVORS Agape International Missions (Phnom Penh, Cambodia) The Bridge Program (Seattle) Children of … More Top Anti-Trafficking Websites
The Salvation Army has helped rescue three young women trafficked from Thailand and forced to work in a Sydney brothel. A Sydney brothel owner has been charged with human trafficking offences following raids by the Australian Federal Police (AFP)…they were tipped off by the Salvation Army, that had learned of the women’s situation and contacted … More Salvation Army rescues trafficked women
INDIANAPOLIS (1/30/12)— Indiana has its first new law of 2012’s legislative session: A crackdown on human trafficking, just in time for Sunday’s Super Bowl. Gov. Mitch Daniels signed the measure into law Monday, saying he hopes it will “put up the ‘Don’t Try It Here’ sign in Indiana” just in time for a game that Indiana … More Indiana Gov. Daniels Signs Bill Cracking Down on Sex Trade
Have you ever met someone where right away you sense something different about them as if they have this rarified aura of “other-ness?” Sheila Houston is that type of person for me. Sheila is not only a “finder of lost children” (title of a recent article in Seattle Met magazine) but also a healer of … More Sheila Houston, Finder of Lost Children
Buy Sex, Buy Rape is a sex trafficking prevention campaign to help end the demand of men buying sex in prostitution. Many reports reveal tens of thousands of prostituted girls and women are trafficked every year into the host city of the Super Bowl or other major sporting events such as the World Cup. In fact, … More “BUY SEX, BUY RAPE” Sex Trafficking Prevention Campaign Launches Website During Super Bowl Week
Faith Huckel, Co-Founder and the Executive Director of Restore NYC, a shelter in New York City for foreign national survivors from sex trafficking (and an Advisor for Hope for Seattle’s upcoming sex trafficking prevention campaign), “took her social-work skills and a heap of prayer to launch the city’s first and only long-term aftercare shelter for foreign-born … More Faith Huckel of Restore NYC Shows the Way as a Service Provider
Back in late September 2003, then U.S. President George W. Bush addressed the U.N. General Assembly and articulated well on the crisis of sex trafficking including saying (aka modern-day slavery): “There’s another humanitarian crisis spreading, yet hidden from view. Each year an estimated 800,000 to 900,000 human beings are bought, sold or forced across the … More Bush’s Speech on Modern-Day Slavery Back in 2003
(POINT NOIRE, CONGO) Forced child labour remains rampant in Central Africa, where poverty fuels the trafficking of children from poorer countries to oil-rich states such as Gabon, Equatorial Guinea and the Republic of Congo, according to experts. “Trafficking in children is real,” said Gabon’s social affairs director-general, Mélanie Mbadinga Matsanga. “Gabon, for example, is considered … More Child Trafficking Real in Congo
27 million humans are slaves today! 80% of these victims are either children or women. In fact, 1.8 million children each year forced or exploited into prostitution. This is a crisis of our lifetime and we cannot stand for this! Let’s become a solution to help prevent and end human trafficking together. JOIN THE ABOLITION … More HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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